Journal profile · Multiple
ASIAN CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC ANNALS
ISSN 0218-4923 · eISSN 1816-5370 · SAGE
ASIAN CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC ANNALS: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2026 Xinrui edition); impact factor 0.7 (journal website); subscription journal; APC about USD 4,150; review about 90 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 23.2% (journal website); 60 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
ASIAN CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC ANNALS is published by SAGE and is classed under Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches and Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair, together about 30.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Asian Annals has been the "Voice of Cardiac Medicine in Asia" and the Pacific Rim since it was launched in 1993. It evolved from the APEX newsletter in the mid to late 1980s into a regular scientific publication where Asian clinicians can report original work and case studies, discuss surgical techniques, review intra-disciplinary literature, and communicate regional news and events. The focus of Asian Annals is the care of the heart. Our mission is to provide a forum for cardiovascular and thoracic surgeons, cardiologists, and allied health care professionals from Asia and the Pacific Rim to discuss the diagnoses and treatment of cardiovascular and thoracic diseases from a regional perspective. Although compelling clinical work is accepted for publication from outside of Asia, we are primarily concerned with the development of cardiac medicine in this vast and diverse part of the world.During our years of publication, Asian medicine has progressed at a pace unequaled in the world, and we look forward with renewed vigor to documenting this progress by reemphasizing our role as a forum for the free and open exchange on the issues, events, and scientific data impacting the vibrant Asian cardiac community.For further information visit http://asianannals.ctsnetjournals.org This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aan.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Yutaka OkitaPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsMedicine12.1%
- Aortic Disease and Treatment ApproachesMedicine9.3%
- Cardiac Structural Anomalies and RepairMedicine8.8%
- Congenital Heart Disease StudiesMedicine8.1%
- Cardiac and Coronary Surgery TechniquesMedicine6.3%
- Tracheal and airway disordersMedicine5.6%
- Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and ManagementMedicine5.5%
- Aortic aneurysm repair treatmentsMedicine3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Respiratory System | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 0.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.25LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.4LetPub ·
- h-index
- 39OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 752OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.73OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 2.75%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 54LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 4,474 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 62 | 5 | 9 |
| 2025 | 60 | 17 | 27 |
| 2024 | 49 | 11 | 89 |
| 2023 | 88 | 11 | 174 |
| 2022 | 92 | 17 | 272 |
| 2021 | 158 | 14 | 560 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
90 dayssubmission to acceptance
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 23.2%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 90 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 22 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Keywords
- 4–6
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted10
- case studiesCase studiesLength not stated
- case studyManuscripts are considered for publication with the understanding that they have not been published previously and are not under consideration by another public…Length not stated
- images/illustrative examples of surgical casesImages/illustrative examples of surgical casesLength not stated
- letters to the editorManuscripts are considered for publication with the understanding that they have not been published previously and are not under consideration by another public…Length not stated
- letters to the editor and regional news/eventsLetters to the Editor and regional news/eventsLength not stated
- original clinical manuscripts (including research reports)Original clinical manuscripts (including research reports)Length not stated
- research reportManuscripts are considered for publication with the understanding that they have not been published previously and are not under consideration by another public…Length not stated
- reviewManuscripts are considered for publication with the understanding that they have not been published previously and are not under consideration by another public…Length not stated
- reviewsReviewsLength not stated
- “how to do it” short discussions on surgical techniques“How to do it” short discussions on surgical techniquesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
All papers prepared in consultation with a statistician who is not a co-author should contain an acknowledgment indicating the name and a single highest academic qualification of the consultant statistician. Individuals who have made substantial intellectual contributions to the paper but do not fulfil the criteria for authorship may be named.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Sage after receipt of your accepted article. Optional open access publi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Identity transparency: Double anonymized Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE
- ISSN
- 0218-4923
- Electronic ISSN
- 1816-5370
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about ASIAN CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC ANNALS
What CAS zone is ASIAN CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC ANNALS in?
In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of ASIAN CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC ANNALS?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.7; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.6, h-index 39.
How long does peer review take at ASIAN CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC ANNALS?
The publisher reports about 90 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 23.2%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of ASIAN CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC ANNALS?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Keywords: 4–6; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index ASIAN CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC ANNALS?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, ASIAN CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC ANNALS is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is ASIAN CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC ANNALS open access, and what is the APC?
ASIAN CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC ANNALS is a subscription journal. APC about USD 4,150.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .